That's the problem. My PS4 plays ports better than the Switch ever will, so why would I buy them on the Switch? The games that release on multiple systems will always look better on the PS4. Im not a PC gamer, probably never will be. And a PC can't do what a Switch can and go from the TV, to my backpack, and on the road with me. I seriously want a Switch but no games.

I do what I want so screw the stupid ass conventional Vegas crap.
Switch isn't gonna be worth my time for at least 7-8 more years at minimum.
Wii U has what I'd need though it likely won't be long before online plug gets pulled next year or two

We own more games on the Switch than we did when the PS4 was just as new, but three of them out of five can be bought elsewhere, most likely for cheaper.
If being able to play games whenever and wherever isn't worth $299 to you, it's not worth buying, especially if you're not a fan of platformers, which make up a good portion of the console's upcoming lineup.
There's Xenoblade 2, I guess. Though I'm looking forward to it even less than X. For which my expectations were lower than Fifa whatever, also thanks to everyone's disappointment.

Take my opinion on the console with a grain of salt, as the only thing I played outside of a few rounds of Puyo Puyo Tetris and an hour or two of Snipperclips was Sonic Mania for a few hours.
Or don't take it with a grain of salt for this very reason.

I really want to go to the Pinball Hall of Fame in Vegas. It sounds like a really cool place to check out.

Switch doesn't interest me either. I don't play console games anymore and I'm not about to start again now. Sure, you can 'play it like a handheld,' but it's a console first and foremost, especially those prices. I'm not going to pay console prices for a game I can play 'on the go.' Also you have to pay to play online. Screw that. Why people are fine with it, I'll never know.

Anyway, all I care about are PCs and dedicated handhelds. I have no use for consoles.

Circus Circus is a terrible casino. So many brats running and screaming throughout. Argh. Excalibur is bad too. The Bellagio has awesome plush carpeting. Tropicano has the worst buffet restaurant I've ever had the 'pleasure' to eat at.

I still gambled a little on the slots and won $100 which I spent on buffets.

Booooo, you won $100 and didn't spend any of it on video games? Space ferrets have misplaced priorities.

If you go to Las Vegas and don't gamble (or commit other sins), then you might as well just go to Branson

When I went to Vegas a few years ago, I didn't gamble or commit any other sins, unless pinball is a sin. I purposely didn't go to Branson because I don't know what it is.

I wonder if it would be foolish to buy a refurbished Wii U off Nintendo's online store

I think your plan sounds good. A spare of a heavily used game system, especially one with an optical drive, seems like good contingency coverage. I myself have a spare, unopened PSP-3000 (my main is a PSP-2000). No spares for any other system, but it would be nice to have them.

Well you don't go there to gamble, but for the spectacle.

I don't consider "so many brats running and screaming throughout" to be a spectacle worth experiencing, even for free.

After waffling for a while, I did end up opening an account with a proxy bidding service and winning an auction on Yahoo Japan Auctions. We'll see how the rest of this new experience goes, but I'm not very happy with the exchange rate that was used to fund my account from PayPal.

In other news, I have had to get another haircut. *sigh* At least, this time, I . . . still look like a girl? Wait a minute.

To everyone facing Hurricane Irma, I hope you can stay safe and healthy.

I'm not sure whether that beats the time I got called "Ma'am" even though I hadn't shaven in a while. I mean, maybe you look like Lieutenant Ilia, Persis Khambatta's bald Deltan character in ST:TMP. I sure don't.

I found a unique and expensive upcoming plug-n-play game system today, Taito's Densha de GO! Plug & Play, releasing in February for 14,800 yen. It's an HD remaster (HDMI output) of the PS2 game Densha de GO! FINAL, housed in a physical incarnation of the series' signature train controls. Apparently, a limited edition color variant (yellow) was sold during Amazon's Prime Day, which was shortly after the system was announced in early July.

I figure that a big part of the reason for the high price is the fact that the game is very, very niche. The production run size for this probably isn't very big. So, the hardware inside the system is probably such that, for a higher volume run, it could be sold for a more mainstream-friendly cost. With that in mind, then, wow! HD remasters of PS2-era games, with customized, standalone controllers, for around the same price as a Super NES Classic? I'd like to see that. Well, no actual games come to mind as benefiting greatly from specialized controllers, other than games that were already better with, say, a steering wheel or GunCon. What's exciting to me is mainly just the idea that we've gotten to the point where we could conceivably have plug-n-play collections of PS2-era games--although, admittedly, they wouldn't be at the $20-$30 price point at which we had retro plug-n-play game collections 10-15 years ago.

Man, setting up your website to be found by Google is a freaking nightmare, apparently. Did you have to go through all this trouble? Screw that, I'm gonna do it the hard way. Links everywhere!

Apparently Wordpress does allow for regular HTML, so I might as well move to a more "international" host, rather than stay with the Italian Altervista. If and when I finally come up with a name. I have a rough idea, but it's extremely cheesy. I mean, would you visit a game review website called Snoring Sloth (adjective subject to change) with a logo like this (logo subject to change)? I wouldn't.

Anyway, I really want to open it before too much time passes after the release of Metroid: Samus Returns, for obvious reasons.
How much time I need depends on whether I want to add a comment section or not. It would greatly improve the website, but it'd take a lot of time and effort, and I'm a sloth for a reason. Unless I can implement the built-in Wordpress comment plugin in a homemade HTML page. Hopefully that's the case.

I don't consider "so many brats running and screaming throughout" to be a spectacle worth experiencing, even for free.

I was waiting for someone to say this. I had to wait longer than I thought I would.

Anyway, I am very happy today. I went to the library and the latest Witcher novel was on the shelf. YAY!!!! I had no idea it was already out, but I saw it in the bookstore.

I bought a bunch of books at the same bookstore. Volumes 1, 2 and 3 of the YGO omnibus, volumes V and VI of the Death Note omnibus, and the best of the bunch, The Plague Dogs. My copy of the latter is falling apart, and I've been hunting for this book (physically) for years and never found a copy, yet I see Watership Down everywhere. I finally found a copy 3 days ago. I am very pleased about that. I also was looking to replace several Redwall books too, as several have already fell apart, but wow. The store only had ONE novel of Redwall, and it's not one I have to replace. I guess it's no longer popular anymore if a giant bookstore doesn't sell it anymore. As for the omnibus', I finally managed to finish my YGO and DN set.

But running and screaming isn't 'kids being kids.' It's kids being very annoying and disrepectful. I certainly never screamed in public when I was a kid, nor did I talk really loudly like kids/teens do when I take the bus. Sure, I see some quiet kids, but there are far more bad ones. Running and screaming in public is bad behaviour. Why aren't the parents disciplining them?

What's the point of being a kid if you can't run and scream in public? Kids are supposed to be disrespectful, just as long as they aren't setting things on fire or causing other types of property damage.

"I don't know if I should tell you something."
"What?"
"No, you don't want to."
"Come on, tell me, I'll try not to get too angry this time."
"...do you still think about her?"
"Better not to meet her again. It's the best for everyone."
"No, it's not!"
"Yes it is!"
"...I think I saw her outside the bar [below our flat] with what you thought were her friends [which we came across so many times right there]. Glasses and bi-colored hair."
"One more reason to not leave the house."

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far

My human mind can't correlate the content of the post above with either of the previous two. Should I voyage further?

stop caring about them

She was the first one I ever cared about since middle school (more than 5 years ago now), but since there was no way I could see her, I just gave up, as I should have.
Then she supposedly shows up 3 meters below my feet. Of course I get angry and sad and try to make excuses to avoid trying to talk to her. Like "oh, but her friends noticed that I only go out with mommy and sis (and only when I'm forced to), surely they'll tell her", or "oh, but I have nothing to say", or "oh, but I blushed when we exchanged gazes when I wanted to check if she got off the bus earlier that day, who knows how pathetic I'll look if I somehow talk to her".

Note to self: never write "mommy and sis" on Google.

TheRedPill

I'm not sure how I'm supposed to feel about the topics I stumbled across.
Am I supposed to take them seriously? Or should I not become a self-centered human being that treats women as sex dolls?

My point is, ignorance really can be bliss. You're just making yourself miserable and you know you are, but can't help yourself. And I did the same thing when I was your age, to this girl I went to college with.

Eventually you get over it. But until you do, you're in for a miserable time.

Oh, right, yeah.
Too bad I know for a fact I'll come across them at one point. It occured way too many times for it to not happen again.

It's just that... I don't know when it started, certainly before I met her, but someday I just started overthinking every single thing that happens and doesn't happen.
In this case,

Come on, she clearly hates me, who even likes to be stared at, especially by creeps like me. She even talked about it with a male friend one day, she must have clearly talked about me, I don't think there's more than one stalker in her life, or at least I hope so. But that was 7 months ago, I'm not saying she should change her lifestyle because of a maniac like me, but if she feels as uncomfortable as she should be, then why did she keep sitting in front of me?
The day I got out of school earlier half the bus was empty, but she sat right in front of me. And why did she take that freaking picture that day - she was definitely taking a pic, you don't see someone lifting their arm and their phone like that all the time - did she want to show that she wasn't the only one with a jacket on her lap or am I this handsome - hahaha, of course I'm not, the opposite, in fact - and why did I pretend I wasn't noticing her weird movement, a funny face would have definitely started a discussion or at least made her feel embarassed and look even cuter.
And there was also that day when we were waiting for the bus to arrive and she was dangerously close to me when there was so much space. I felt somehow happy, too bad her friends arrived. Not the ones at the bar, other ones; they were the ones who said that name. Maybe it was not "oh, look, there's [name]!", but "oh, [name], look who's there!", so I got it all wrong. Might explain why I couldn't find her anywhere. Either way, maybe she didn't find me as repugnant as I thought, did she feel sorry for me? She did hear me talking on the phone all sad and stuff multiple times about "abandoning everything". Maybe she was just minding her own business and I'm making all of this up.
Does she know I live here? She shouldn't, right? Or did her friends tell her? Maybe they just want to spend time down there like they did before, but with one more person.

It gets extremely tiring, physically tiring, after a while. Just as tiring as reading what I wrote above.
P.S. There were no dots or question marks before. Then I remembered James Joyce's "Odyssey". It sure was revolutionary, but not really fun to read. Or at all.

On another note, I'm about to start working on my El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron review, still without a real name for the website. Sorry, Atariboy, but I'd rather not have them notice I finished a game I paid €70 for in two or three days. Then again, you said you'd buy Samus Returns in 2019.

I'm not sure how I'm supposed to feel about the topics I stumbled across.
Am I supposed to take them seriously? Or should I not become a self-centered human being that treats women as sex dolls?

There's a lot of info on there and it will take a while to grasp it all. I'm convinced it will help you. This sub contains some misogyny but that's because of the frustration. Not everyone on there is mysogynystic. It's a sub about self improvement, tough truths and human nature. Regarding your problem, I'd recommend looking up the term 'oneitis' on that sub. There's also the 'askTRP' subreddit. I found the info on there very interesting and the posts are sometimes pretty hilarious. Anyway I wish I had found TheRedPill earlier in life and I thought I was doing you a favor by sharing it with you.

I'm terribly sorry, I didn't mean to make you feel this way.
I genuinely didn't know what to make of that suggestion after I read stuff like "Alpha F**ks, Beta Bucks", "Second F**k, third f**k, and beyond", "a short lesson in how women completely control men and the dialogue" and "Nice guys are f**king boring", which is something I already figured out when my age only had a single digit.
Now, I have just found something called "How to be funny", which might be the ideal thing to read as my current attempts don't work, never worked, and will never work unless I take those suggestions to heart, and there will most likely be many more hopefully-useful topics like this.

And I think I've suffered from oneitis since I was born, judging by its description.

Anyway, I don't really think I should focus on women this much. I can barely hold a conversation with anyone - or even look them in the eyes - even my relatives, should I not start from square 1? "That's the point" will be your answer, right?